Gateway to the Great Books: Philosophical essaysRobert Maynard Hutchins, Mortimer Jerome Adler Encyclopædia Britannica, 1963 - 644 pages Complements Great Books of the Western World; includes only short works and excerpts from longer works. |
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... intellectual contacts that are needed for learning . They can best be fought by cultivating that alert curiosity and spontane- ous outreaching for the new which is the essence of the open mind . The mind that is open merely in the sense ...
... intellectual contacts that are needed for learning . They can best be fought by cultivating that alert curiosity and spontane- ous outreaching for the new which is the essence of the open mind . The mind that is open merely in the sense ...
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... Intellectual Possibilities . These facts are full of educational significance . Most children are pre - eminently active in their tendencies . The schools have also taken on — largely from utilitarian , rather than from strictly ...
... Intellectual Possibilities . These facts are full of educational significance . Most children are pre - eminently active in their tendencies . The schools have also taken on — largely from utilitarian , rather than from strictly ...
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... intellectual good out of what persons and books have to communi- cate . How to Make an Intellectual Asset of Learning through Communicated Information . Doubtless the chief meaning associated with the word in- struction is this ...
... intellectual good out of what persons and books have to communi- cate . How to Make an Intellectual Asset of Learning through Communicated Information . Doubtless the chief meaning associated with the word in- struction is this ...
Contents
JOHN ERSKINE | 1 |
WILLIAM KINGDON CLIFFORD | 14 |
WILLIAM JAMES | 37 |
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action activity Aristotle atoms attitude become believe better body called cause character Church Cicero conception death Democritus Descartes divine Epictetus Epicurean Epicurus everything evidence evil existence experience fact faith Faust fear feeling friendship Gaius Laelius give Goethe habit human hypothesis idea ideal imagination important inference infinite intellectual intelligence interest judgment kind knowledge Laelius live logical look Lucretius man's matter meaning mental Mephistopheles method Metrocles mind moral nature never notion object observation old age ourselves passion person philosopher Plato pleasure Plutarch poet possible practical present problem qualities question reason reflection religion scientific Scipio seems sense Socrates soul speak Spinoza spirit Spurius Maelius suggested suppose Tarentum things Thomas thought Tiberius Gracchus tion true truth understanding universe virtue Voltaire W. K. Clifford Western World whole wish word